What's the main difference between and SMT game and a Persona game?

What's the main difference between and SMT game and a Persona game?

I have only played Nocturne and DDS saga.

In SMT you recruit/capture enemies and there are multiple routes

SMT:
- Recruit monsters / basically a sadistic Pokemon
- Post-Apocalypse / dark but also dark humor
- Choose a side you think would help rebuild the world

Persona:
- Character heavy story
- Linear, with some bad ends here or there
- Collect Persona, basically just different skillsets based off of SMT demons
- Lighter atmosphere revolving High School
- Dating sim lite

So it's more about talking to people and character delelopment than combat?

I love SMT combat, if Persona focus more on characters i guess the characters would need to be good.

Oh the SMT combat is still there, just adjusted. Unlike DDS and Nocturne, in P3 and P4 you can get an extra turn if you exploit a weakness.

>Unlike DDS and Nocturne, in P3 and P4 you can get an extra turn if you exploit a weakness.

It's like that on DDS and Nocturne.
Are Persona 3 characters good?

Persona is actual fun for a somewhat normal person while SMT games are boring, overrated nonsense.

>in P3 and P4 you can get an extra turn if you exploit a weakness.
its just like that on DDS and Nocturne, even in SJ

define good.
they are just your average anime characters. the more you play the more you get attached to them

Shut up

>Unlike DDS and Nocturne, in P3 and P4 you can get an extra turn if you exploit a weakness.

Well written, at least not shit.

I personally say so. I got attached to them like they were bros.

Yes, but I feel Persona simplified them somehow. It's not exactly Press-Turn, it's like you can immediately act instead of storing a half-turn for later use.

there's a big variety of Persona characters who are all relatively well received
you'd find at least 1 character you'd like

P3 still kinda felt like an SMT game in some ways. It's P4 that felt too cheery.

This.

Everyone has 1 character they like and 1 they hate in each persona game

>DDS saga.
>digital devil saga saga

Persona a shit play Raidou

Careful now, some P4fag is going to come along and call you an edgelord.

Blame the writing, not me. Persona 3 is about overcoming fear of the inevitability of death and finding happiness in the small amount of time we have.

Persona is good, thats the main difference

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Persona is a different flavor of SMT. It's not exactly SMT-lite, the combat is still pretty much the same and it can be difficult at times or I'm just a total faggot, that's equally possible. Instead of being overtly dark and moody they tend toward more upbeat tones, even P3 for as melancholic as it is has more general humor and lightheartedness. The characters are more fleshed out and there's some light date sim elements which work pretty well. I honestly don't see why someone who enjoys one can't enjoy the other.

>Raidou

Shiiieeeet, my nigga. Such a damn shame we'll never get a third game but it was always a franchise outlier with its action combat.

Imagine SMT is coffee
now image someone puts milk on that coffee. thats Persona

BABY BABY BABY

Rasputin is best boy

>I have only played Nocturne and DDS saga.
Just play Strange Journey and call it a day.